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Netflix announces partnership with six Japanese creators to develop Anime Originals
Netflix announced from Tokyo this week that it has partnered with six Japanese creators to develop original anime series for fans around the world, as part of the company’s continued effort to build on its best-in-class anime originals with deep creative roots in Japan. The six creators...
OTT platform ZEE5 joins hands with Alliance Broadband to spread wide in Eastern India
ZEE5 has collaborated with Alliance Broadband, the biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Eastern India, to offer easy access to over 1.25 lakh hours of a wide variety of content across different genres in 12 languages to its customers on the platform. Alliance Broadband customers with Alliance...
Nickelodeon’s former president Cyma Zarghami returns to business with children’s content studio
Nickelodeon former president Cyma Zarghami, after leaving the company has returned to the business of creating content for kids. She recently launched MiMO Studio, a production company and consultancy that will put its initial focus on developing original movies based on properties she thinks will win over...
Bombay HC issues order for deferment of TRAI’s New Tariff Order 2.0
The Bombay High Court has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to look after instructions on deferment of the NTO (new tariff order) 2.0 similar to what they did in the 2017 regime before the Madras High Court. According to reliable sources, TRAI has to...
HBO Max signs Multi-Year deals with children’s author Mo Willems
HBO Max has announced an exclusive, multi-year deal with beloved children’s author Mo Willems, an Emmy Award-winning writer, New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, establishing Willems as HBO Max’s very first artist in residence. As part of this two-year deal, HBO Max has acquired streaming rights...
Succeeding Iger, Bob Chapek becomes the next CEO of Walt Disney
Disney CEO Bob Iger will be replaced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products chairman Bob Chapek as CEO, effective immediately, the board of directors of Walt Disney Co. broke the news on Tuesday. Iger will stay on as executive chairman through the end of 2021, with a...
Asia’s largest film and content market, Hong Kong Filmart 2020 postponed due to coronavirus scare
Asia’s largest film and television content market, Hong Kong Filmart has been postponed to August due to the global Coronavirus outbreak. Originally slated for late March, the 23rd edition of the market is now scheduled to kick off on 27 August 2020, according to Hong Kong Trade...
‘Spies in Disguise’ official mobile game will be released along with the movie on December 25
Mobile game publishing studio and developer Denali Publishing has announced Spies in Disguise: Agents on the Run, the official mobile game based on the animated spy comedy-adventure Spies in Disguise from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, will launch alongside the film on December 25. In...
Walt Disney Company and Bravokids acquired broadcast rights for ‘Cupcake & Dino’ in Southeast Asia
Entertainment One (eOne) announced that The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and Bravokids have both acquired the exclusive pay TV broadcast rights to season 1 (52 x 11’) of the animated children’s comedy series Cupcake & Dino: General Services in South East Asia and Korea. Episodes are...
K Madhavan appointed as Star and Disney India’s Country Manager
K Madhavan, a noted media veteran has been named as the country head of Star and Disney India, an executive from the company announced on 14th December 2019. Serving as Star India South Business MD, Madhavan will join his new role from 1 January, taking over from...